ECHO Early Warning System as a Preventive Tool against Cybercrime in the Energy Sector

Abstract

The purpose of this case study is to bring lessons learned from the ECHO pro-ject to the DYNAMO project in the energy sector. The main research question is how to understand the ECHO Early Warning System as a tool for the pre-vention of cybercrime as well as cyber incident coordination and response in the context of the energy sector. The applied sources of evidence are the DY-NAMO project proposal, public ECHO deliverables, scientific publications available via the ECHO web pages, and other materials available via the ECHO web pages. The study shows that ECHO Early Warning System can be a very valuable tool, and it also finds examples of how to utilize E-EWS in practice. The main conclusion is that situation awareness, together with Early Warning Systems, is a powerful combination that can facilitate the fight against cyber-crime.